Have you ever hit a bad checkpoint?
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Not positive about this. I was about 11 and was playing Abe's Exoddus and you had a quick save feature, i am pretty sure that i needed a grenade from a dispenser but never picked it up and couldn't go back but i had already clicked quick save and back in the old days of ps1 games, you didn't have multiple saves much so i saved over my 4 hour game and couldn't progress any further, meaning i had to restart the entire game.
But it could have been, i was 11 and stupid and couldn't figure out what to do
But it could have been, i was 11 and stupid and couldn't figure out what to do
Yes...God yes. KotOR, was on Kashykk and I entered an elevator to go to the forest floor. Little did I know that there would be a bounty hunter and 2 Wookies waiting for me. I only had half HP when the checkpoint kicked in and it kicked in during the elevator loading screen. So I constantly loaded facing the enemies and kept dying.
I then learnt the benefits of keeping two saves.
I then learnt the benefits of keeping two saves.
Playing the campaign in Halo: Reach, was facing off against loads of vehicles so picked up a Rocket Launcher and Fuel Rod Cannon, ran out of ammo for both of them and grenades. After clearing out the area, no other guns to be found so the checkpoint decided to set itself there. And up the next hill were several turret nests and grunts. Damn...
The mission where you're flying a Sabre in Reach.
I got killed, and it saved a checkpoint. And I was on legendary. That is actually the only mission I haven't completed on solo legendary now ¬_¬
I got killed, and it saved a checkpoint. And I was on legendary. That is actually the only mission I haven't completed on solo legendary now ¬_¬
Playing Half Life 2 the game decided to checkpoint me as I was barrelling over the edge of a cliff in the buggy driving section, Mad Mad Mad Mad World style. When the checkpoint reloaded I was already in the air over an insta-kill deathdrop, although after about 5 or so consecutive quick deaths the game realised something had gone wrong and reloaded the checkpoint before it. I remember that impressing me.
okay, so this may have been Call of Duty or Halo, any game in either series, haha, so bear with me, because the story has a point even though it's ambigious in details.
I remember playing a game once, (now i'm kinda sure it was a COD) and got a checkpoint right before something killed me, (perhaps a grenade). Time and time again, maybe 10 loads in a row, i died nearly instantly, i tried everything i could. But then something ACTUALLY good happened, the game reverted me the checkpoint RIGHT BEFORE that one. and while i lost a few minutes of gameplay, it was not nearly as bad as restarting the level.
that was intelligent, responsible gameplay programming, exhibiting much forethought. and that experience for whatever reason has always stuck with me.
I remember playing a game once, (now i'm kinda sure it was a COD) and got a checkpoint right before something killed me, (perhaps a grenade). Time and time again, maybe 10 loads in a row, i died nearly instantly, i tried everything i could. But then something ACTUALLY good happened, the game reverted me the checkpoint RIGHT BEFORE that one. and while i lost a few minutes of gameplay, it was not nearly as bad as restarting the level.
that was intelligent, responsible gameplay programming, exhibiting much forethought. and that experience for whatever reason has always stuck with me.
sorry, for the double post, but that uncanny. haha. both impressed to the point of commenting on it, though i can't be sure what game my experience was from, perhaps Half Life, as i own the Orange Box on both XBox and Steam.Tesral said:
anyways, i just thought that was a happy coincidence and needed to say something.
Arma 2 tutorial mission for helicopters. Checkpointed 3 seconds before crash and I spent 10 minutes trying to recover from a nosedive before giving up.
Gee, pretty much every checkpoint in every halo game. Fight through half the level? nope, no checkpoints for you, now the kill teams are comeing for your face, have fun re-doing all that effort. Sitting still in the middle of nowhere, perfectly safe? OH HAAAAY HAVE ALL THESE CHECKPOINTS I HAVE STOCKPILED, YOU REALLY NEED THEM!
But more directly speaking, a marine in halo 2 got my friends and I in a pickle when he let off a rocket into a pillar at point blank range, with us all hiding behind it. We thought it was hillarious untill we realised we poped a checkpoint right as his finger was on the trigger. We had to pull of a split-second no-scope execution to free ourselveds from him.
Halo 3, on the Ark, one of our friends spawed in a tiny crack in a glass wall, we laughed at him for about half an hour through the glass. Then someone died and spawned in the wall on top of his head. Eventually myself and our last friend died and we spawned in the wall too, we couldnt grenade-suicide ourselves out because we just kept spawning in there. Eventually a horde of brutes came up the glass-ramp to laugh at us and a checkpoint poped up. THERE WAS NO ESCAPE.
But more directly speaking, a marine in halo 2 got my friends and I in a pickle when he let off a rocket into a pillar at point blank range, with us all hiding behind it. We thought it was hillarious untill we realised we poped a checkpoint right as his finger was on the trigger. We had to pull of a split-second no-scope execution to free ourselveds from him.
Halo 3, on the Ark, one of our friends spawed in a tiny crack in a glass wall, we laughed at him for about half an hour through the glass. Then someone died and spawned in the wall on top of his head. Eventually myself and our last friend died and we spawned in the wall too, we couldnt grenade-suicide ourselves out because we just kept spawning in there. Eventually a horde of brutes came up the glass-ramp to laugh at us and a checkpoint poped up. THERE WAS NO ESCAPE.
I've never really had that. I think The Mile High Club on veteran is the closest it comes for me. 26 attempts on that level and I did it! Although maybe Abe's Exoddus with the QS feature probably caused me a few problems, more than likely quick saving as numerous sligs fall from the sky and blow the shit out of Abe.
Although maybe Abe's Exoddus with the QS feature probably caused me a few problems, more than likely quick saving as numerous sligs fall from the sky and blow the shit out of Abe.
My friend you have clearly never played the game with FOIP! If you think that sounds bad, you should look up the mechanised Deathclaw Alphas...Sean Hollyman said:ZombieGenesis said:
Super Mutant Enclave Enforcer?
Scary stuff.
Well this one is more of an forced cheackpoint. In the game Conduit in the last level you arrive at the end of the elavator as it open up which the entire guards are awaiting for your arrival. Not only are you stuck in one tiny room but you got little cover and the soliders got grenades which they will throw it by your door step. In another word you're screwed.
I remember I quicksaved on one of the old ps1's tombraiders as I was nosediving into a pit of spikes, don't know what got into me...
on dragon age 2, I'm at a checkpoint near the fight with the Arishok and I have a team that is woefully ill equipped for the fight, but I can't go back and take Fenris (which would allow me to fight him one on one rather than against his entire personal guard. The last save before that is all the way back at the start of the act.
In Oblivion I cleared out my saves when I slept and then my character woke up I was being attacked by a strong ghost-monster thing at point blank and couldn't kill it because I didn't have enough arrows (I was an archer) or enough room to dodge its attacks and when i tried to go outside as a vampire the sun would completely fry me.
T'was suckzors....
T'was suckzors....
I seem to recall running into a bad checkpoint when the helicopter shows up just before you rappel into the nuclear missile base in COD4. I believe I was dicking around looking for intel when it showed up. Since I had played through it numerous times over the last few years I wasn't too worried at first, but I got stuck trying to cross the level back to the rappel point when the chopper showed up, and it took me probably ten tries before I managed to cross without getting mowed down. I believe it also started me off half dead already each time. Luckily I've played it so many times that I saw it as more of a challenge than an annoyance or I would have just said screw it.
But I think the worst checkpoint I ever ended up with wasn't really a checkpoint per se. I was playing PoP: The Sands of time and was in the middle of the fight right before the boss battle. It's been a few years since it happened so I'm somewhat sketchy on the details, but I believe I finished the fight and saved as I had to go somewhere. When I played the game next, the save file started off right at the final battle, skipping over at least one entire cutscene where the girl died and I presume, the Prince went back in time to stop it from ever happening. I'm a little sketchy on the details like I said, probably thanks in part to the game skipping over a fairly important part of the story on me.
But I think the worst checkpoint I ever ended up with wasn't really a checkpoint per se. I was playing PoP: The Sands of time and was in the middle of the fight right before the boss battle. It's been a few years since it happened so I'm somewhat sketchy on the details, but I believe I finished the fight and saved as I had to go somewhere. When I played the game next, the save file started off right at the final battle, skipping over at least one entire cutscene where the girl died and I presume, the Prince went back in time to stop it from ever happening. I'm a little sketchy on the details like I said, probably thanks in part to the game skipping over a fairly important part of the story on me.